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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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I borrowed one for a rehearsal in a house. Drummer had an electric kit and the band level was set so the we could sing without a pa. Also we was classic rock. I had the amp barely one and ran the red side of the King of Tone. Really sounded nice. Not sure how much was the amp and how much was the pedal.
I could have found a good one. BTW I feel the same about the Fender HRD, poorly made and poorly sounding but some people love them.
I'd like to know TSL sales figures and how many go wrong.
What's so telling with the Marshalls is *why* they fail - in most cases it's down to very poor design mistakes and some component quality choices. Some of these should have been obvious to anyone with valve amp experience even before they were signed off by Marshall's R&D.
Bear in mind that even if the failure rate is as high as 25%, three-quarters of owners still have no trouble - but 25% would be a *terrible* failure rate for any electronic product.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Yep.
Eventually ended up driving four hours to Milton Keynes to get it fixed at the Marshall factory. Because no amp tech in the south west wanted to work on it. One guy even said to me "by the time I've figured out what's wrong with yours, I could have serviced five fender amps".
Seeing as I paid over twelve hundred quid, I thought that was a bit shit. Ended up getting it fixed and selling it on and bought a fender instead. The overdrive and distortion did sound quite good though inho. The clean channel was pants.
If they are lacking the skills themselves they can look at the JMP / JCM800 schematics - you would assume they have a copy somewhere in Milton Keynes
For the record I've played some DSL's that I thought were pretty good - however the Marshall's I own are a 6100 head, JCM 800 superbass and a (Dan Gower modded) Vintage Modern.
Does seem to be mostly true that Marshall's with more than 6 knobs are a waste of time!
The HRD is in my opinion a pretty reliable amp. Most of the repairs I see on the HRDs are extrinsic to the amp, ie valves and reverb trays etc. The earlier versions had a few minor faults (power supply resistors overheating, poor input jacks), but this has been corrected in later versions. Additionally Fender must have had a bad batch of caps in the late 90's as I've seen plenty of Fender amps, across the entire range, with bad filter caps from this era, so this not bad design on behalf of the HRD.
cf the DSL/TSL which are usually intrinsic to the amp, ie mains and output transformers, or PCB swap, and are the result of poor design and poor quality components.
The handle also failed and and became a razorblade like strip of metal within a year.
I appreciate you might mean the design of the amp circuit itself but looking at the amp as a whole it doesnt feel to me like its going to last as long as some of the early ones.
Sadly that's common with modern handles, not just Marshall ones.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Fixing a lot of faults though would be cost neutral.